Friday, April 14, 2006

Fascism...BushCo style...

From the Information Clearing House....a couple of pertinent quotes from people who know:

Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else:Bill Moyers - PBS Commentator

=The principal power in Washington is no longer the government of the people it represents. It is the Money Power. Under the deceptive cloak of campaign contributions, access and influence, votes and amendments are bought and sold. Money established priorities of action, holds down federal revenues, revises federal legislation, shifts income from the middle class to the very rich. Money restrains the enforcement of laws written to protect the country from abuses of wealth--laws that mandate environmental protection, antitrust laws, laws to protect the consumer against fraud, laws that safeguard the securities markets, and many more:

Richard N. Goodwin - Speechwriter for John F. Kennedy

="Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.": Mussolini